An independent, peer reviewed journal for policy makers and practitioners in agriculture and related industries, assessing the interactions between population growth, resources, the environment and climate change.

Author: Zhao Guishen

(College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China)
Abstract: Sustainability of agro-ecosystems plays an important role in regional ecological safety and food security. As an ecological accounting tool, the ecological footprint (EF) is widely adopted to assess the sustainability of a given region, nation or industrial sector.
As a virtual area, the EF initially does not reflect the real ecological conditions of the home region. …